Brian RobbinsFilmography

Jailhouse Rock

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Director Brian Robbins helms the true story of Bret Kaiser, a detention officer who helped create an American Idol-like contest at Arizona's Tent City jail, sparking hope and focus through the power of music to the thousands of inmates. The film is based on Joshuah Bearman's L.A. Weekly article Read More

Tulia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton

Synopsis: Director John Singleton teams with screenwriter Karen Croner to detail the quest of an ACLU lawyer in seeking to expose a rash of small-town Texas drug convictions as corrupt and racially motivated. Adapted from author Nate Blakeslee's book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Read More

Meet Dave

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms

Synopsis: With their home planet in danger and no place in the known universe to seek shelter, a desperate crew of miniature alien humanoids boards a human spacecraft in hopes of saving their doomed world. Eddie Murphy stars in a sci-fi comedy that re-teams the longtime comic actor with Norbit director Brian Robbins Read More

New Emissions of Light and Sound

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Taj Burrow, CJ Hobgood, Damien Hobgood, Nathan Webster, Yadin Nicol

Synopsis: This surfing documentary features members of the Globe team - including CJ Hobgood, Taj Burrow, and Nathan Webster - tackling some choice waves. The soundtrack is performed by DJ Sasha. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Wild Hogs

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: A mismatched group of bored suburbanites longing to escape the stress of their daily lives and embrace the freedom of the open road finds that it takes more than polished chrome and leather jackets to truly experience the biker lifestyle in this revved-up road comedy starring John Travolta, Tim Allen Read More

Norbit

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews

Synopsis: A meek and lovable milquetoast married to an overbearing, overweight tyrant finds his life turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams in this romantic comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Eddie Griffin. His entire life, Norbit (Murphy) has been picked Read More

The Bronx is Burning

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Turturro, Oliver Platt, Daniel Sunjata

Synopsis: Filmed on location in New York and Connecticut, the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning was a vivid (if not overly expensive) retelling of the New York Yankees' championship year of 1977. Heading the enormous cast of celebrity lookalikes were Oliver Platt as Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

Crumbs [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, William Devane, Eddie McClintock, Maggie Lawson

Synopsis: Created by Marco Pennette, ABC's Crumbs was an off-kilter sitcom dealing with such warm-and-fuzzy issues as mental illness, attempted homicide, divorce, closeted homosexuality, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and bitter sibling rivalry. In one of the most spectacular examples of non-typecasting in TV Read More

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, Kris Kristofferson, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: A man and his young daughter face almost impossible odds as they struggle to help an injured horse return to the racetrack in this family-friendly drama. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a horse trainer whose career has gone into a bit of a slump, and after years as his own boss, he's signed on to work Read More

Coach Carter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Brown, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, after Read More

Inconceivable [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Jonathan Cake, Angie Harmon, David Noroña, Kevin Alejandro

Synopsis: According to the NBC publicity department, the creators of the weekly, hour-long series Inconceivable, Oliver Goldstick and Marco Pennette, had drawn inspiration from their own lives, in which surrogate parents and in vitro fertilization had been utilized to expand their families. The weekly Read More

The Perfect Score

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam

Synopsis: Produced by MTV Films, The Perfect Score is a teen crime comedy about a group of high school students who decide to steal the answers to the SAT exam. Kyle (Chris Evans) wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty (Bryan Greenberg) is Read More

One Tree Hill: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Moira Kelly, Hilarie Burton, Barbara Alyn Woods

Synopsis:
The big news that broke during the finale of One Tree Hill's first season -- namely, the marriage between wealthy, arrogant high school basketball star Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and Haley James (Bethany Joy Lenz), the lifelong friend of Nathan's half brother, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) Read More

Smallville: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, John Schneider

Synopsis: Season three of the Superman-derived adventure series Smallville had ended with young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) disappearing into a mysterious portal opened by his Kryptonian birth father, Jor-El (Terence Stamp), while Clark's Earthling adoptive father, Jonathan (John Schneider), lay comatose. Read More

Radio

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brent Sexton, Debra Winger

Synopsis: Hollywood filmmaker Michael Tollin directs the sports drama Radio, based on a true story and adapted for the screen by Mike Rich (The Rookie). Set in a small South Carolina town during the '60s, the film stars Ed Harris as Harold Jones, a high school football coach who barely has time to spend Read More

I'm With Her [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Teri Polo, David Sutcliffe, Danny Comden, Rhea Seehorn

Synopsis: Based on the real-life romance between series co-creator Chris Henchy and film favorite Brooke Shields, this ABC sitcom starred David Sutcliffe as high school English teacher Patrick Owen and Teri Polo as gorgeous movie star Alex Young. "Meeting cute" when Patrick was attacked by Alex's dog, the Read More

Black Sash [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A vehicle for Romeo Must Die star Russell Wong, the weekly, 60-minute adventure series Black Sash cast Wong as Tom Chang, a former San Francisco cop who returned to his homeland in disgrace after being wrongly imprisoned for years in a Hong Kong jail. Hoping to find a new purpose in life, Tom Read More

Smallville: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack

Synopsis: Season three of Smallville brought several more hidden facts about the Kryptonian heritage of young Clark Kent (Tom Welling) to the forefront -- and also provided a few additional links to Clark's future life as Superman. The series also found the unsavory past of billionaire industrialist Lionel Read More

Hardwood Dreams: Ten Years Later

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stais Boseman, Dwight Curry, Dominic Ellison, Sean Harris, Corey Saffold

One Tree Hill [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in the affluent suburb of Tree Hill, NC, this teen-oriented WB dramedy was the story of two half-brothers united only by a common name. Sullen Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) was a street-basketball legend in his own small blue-collar community, while his arrogant half-sibling Nathan (James Lafferty Read More

Big Fat Liar

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison

Synopsis: Former co-stars of the TV sitcom Head of the Class teamed up to write the story and script for this teen comedy. When junior high-school student Jason Shepherd (Frankie Muniz) realizes that his class paper has been ripped off and turned into a hit motion picture called "Big Fat Liar," he takes Read More

Smallville: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack

Synopsis: Season two of the WB network's popular Smallville upheld its excellent ratings by adhering religiously to the same mixture as before: combining tantalizing elements of the Superman legend with the sort of "teen angst" indigenous to such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek, all the Read More

Birds of Prey: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Three superheroines team up to take back the streets of New Gotham. First up: Crimefighters Helena Kyle (Ashley Scott) and Barbara Gordon (Dina Meyer) get some unexpected help in the form of Dinah (Rachel Skarsten), a teenager with telepathic powers. The three investigate a series of suspicious Read More

What I Like About You [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A typical WB Friday-night "familycom" effort, What I Like About You starred Amanda Bynes, late of Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, and Jennie Garth, a veteran of Beverly Hills 90210. When her father was transferred to Japan, 16-year-old Holly (Bynes), for whom the phrase "accident prone" must have Read More

Birds of Prey [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dina Meyer, Ashley Scott, Rachel Skarsten, Mia Sara, Shemar Moore

Synopsis: Taking a "revisionist" approach to several DC Comics favorites, the weekly adventure series Birds of Prey could easily have been retitled "Charlie's Superheroines." Dina Meyer headed the cast as Barbara Gordon, who in her younger days fought crime in Gotham City as the caped-and-cowled Batgirl. Read More

Hardball

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes

Synopsis: Television actor-turned-director Brian Robbins follows up Varsity Blues (1999) and Ready to Rumble (2000) with another sports comedy. Keanu Reeves stars as Conor O'Neill, an underachiever and inveterate sports gambler who needs a bailout loan from a friend to pay off his mounting debt. As a Read More

Summer Catch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jessica Biel, Jason Gedrick, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: This blend of sports and youthful romantic comedy is from director Michael Tollin, who previously produced the sports drama Varsity Blues (1999). Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan Dunne, a ballplayer who's spending the summer as a pitcher for the famed, highly prestigious Cape Cod League, a Read More

Smallville [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Superficially, the much-anticipated weekly adventure fantasy series Smallville resembled the many cartoon and live-action adaptations of DC's old Superboy comic books, themselves spin-offs of the indomitable Siegel and Schuster creation, Superman. However, this new hour-long WB series went off on Read More

Smallville: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Eric Johnson, Sam Jones III

Synopsis: "What was life like for Superman before he grew up to be Superman?" That was the questioned posed, and brilliantly, answered, on the weekly sci-fi/adventure series Smallville, the WB network's most successful new program of the 2001-2002 TV season. Without wreaking undue damage on the sacred Read More

The Nightmare Room [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: R.L. Stine

Ready to Rumble

Crew: Director

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

Varsity Blues

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker, Ron Lester, Scott Caan

Synopsis: In his first feature following the success of television's Dawson's Creek, James Van Der Beek stars as Jonathan Moxon, the back-up quarterback on his high-school football team, the West Canaan Coyotes. In West Canaan, the only thing that matters is football, and the man who matters is the one with Read More

Popular [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Debuting September 29, 1999, the weekly, hour-long WB series Popular was frequently described as a "satire" or "send-up" of the heavy-breathing teen angst genre. This, of course, did not prevent many fans from taking the series' incredible plot twists and turns with the utmost seriousness. The Read More

Cousin Skeeter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bill Bellamy, Robert Richard, Rondell Sheridan, Angela Means, Meagan Good

Good Burger

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Shar Jackson

Synopsis: Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, stars of the popular Nickelodeon series All That, confront the ogre of faceless corporate tyranny and have fun doing it in this comedy for young people. Ed (Mitchell) is a teenager who lives for his job at Good Burger, a small but friendly neighborhood Read More

Arli$$ [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Kenan & Kel [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell

The Show

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sean Combs, Method Man, Biggie Smalls, Russell Simmons, Craig Mack, Dr. Dre, Naughty By Nature, Snoop Dogg, Run-D.M.C.

Synopsis: This documentary offers viewers an in depth look at the world of hip-hop and rap music as it chronicles a diverse group of performers preparing to give a major concert at Philadelphia's Armory. Interspersed amongst the preparations are interviews with rappers past and present, looks at their Read More

All That [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Chelsea Brummet, Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon, Lori Beth Denberg, Jack DeSena, Tricia Dickson, Lisa Foiles, Leon Frierson, Louisette Geiss, Bryan Hearne, Gabriel Iglesias, Katrina Johnson, Christina Kirkman, Christy Knowings, Kevin Kopelow, Shane Lyons, Zachary McLemore, Kel Mitchell, Alisa Reyes, Giovonnie Samuels, Mark Saul, Josh Server, Rachel Snow, Jamie Lynn Spears, Kyle Sullivan, Daniel Tamberelli, Kenan Thompson

Synopsis: A sort-of Saturday Night Live for the preteen set, Nickelodeon 's All That features a blend of comedy skits, musical guest performances, and kid-friendly guest stars. Following in the footsteps of its adult inspiration, the series spawned a movie from one its sketches (Good Burger) and served as a Read More

Hardwood Dreams

Crew: Executive Producer

DaVinci's War

Synopsis: In this action drama, Frank DaVinci is out to avenge the murder of his sister. To follow through with his vendetta he enlists the aide of a hired killer and a group of Vietnam Vets. Violence and explosions ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Full House: Captain Video, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jesse (John Stamos ) learns to regret giving in to the producers who have insisted that he refilm his music video as a grotesque extravaganza. Breaking his recording deal, Jesse finds himself with no job and no prospects--but, fortunately, with plenty of Read More

Full House: Captain Video, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, everyone in the Tanner household suffers when Michelle (played by the Olsen twins) tries to win a cooking merit badge. Meanwhile, Danny balks at giving DJ permission to study in Spain during the summer. And in a last-chance effort to insure the saleability Read More

Head of the Class: Season 05

Actors: Billy Connolly, William G. Schilling, Jeanetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: By rights, Head of the Class should have ended its run at the end of its fourth season, with the departure of series star Howard Hesseman. However, ABC decided to film a fifth and final season as a back-up, in case any of their new programs of the 1990-1991 season should be prematurely canceled. Read More

Camp Cucamonga

Actors: G. Gordon Liddy, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Familiar faces from television sitcoms abound in this kids-at-camp TV-movie. John Ratzenberger stars as Colonel Marv Schector, a former accountant who fulfills his life-long dream to run a summer camp. Typical teen shenanigans soon get underway, in the vein of 1985's Poison Ivy. G. Gordon Liddy Read More

Head of the Class: Season 04

Actors: Howard Hesseman, William G. Schilling, Jeanetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: There is quite a cast turnover in season four of Head of the Class, with three of the gifted students in Fillmore High School's Individual Honors Program (IHP) having moved on in life. Overachiever Maria has transferred to the High School of Performing Arts, Indian émigré Jarwarhal has gone to Read More

C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D.

Actors: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerritt Graham, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Originally conceived as a Return of the Living Dead sequel and later inexplicably re-titled (despite the highly questionable marketing value of a C.H.U.D. franchise) this clunky attempt at a horror satire involves a pair of teenage do-nothings who abscond from a military base with a corpse who Read More

Head of the Class: Season 03

Actors: Howard Hesseman, William G. Schilling, Jeanetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: "Permanent substitute" teacher Charlie Moore (Howard Hesseman) continues to instill the genius-level students of Fillmore High's Individual Honors Program (IHP) with the sort of things one can't find in a book -- such as emotional maturity, personal responsibility and a genuine sense of self-worth Read More

Cellar Dweller

Actors: Deborah Mullowney, Brian Robbins, Vince Edwards, Cheryl-Ann Wilson, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: A quaint, stagebound little horror film from Charles Band's Empire Pictures, Cellar Dweller stars Jeffrey Combs (fresh off his glorious turn as Herbert West in the Empire-produced Re-Animator) as a '50s horror-comic artist who falls prey to one of his own creations -- a ferocious demon he based on Read More

Head of the Class: Season 02

Actors: Howard Hesseman, William G. Schilling, Jeanetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: Head of the Class enters its second season with unorthodox substitute teacher Charlie Moore (Howard Hesseman) now permanently in charge of the Individual Honors Program (IHP) at New York's Fillmore High. Charlie has no trouble teaching the kids academics, since his ten charges are the most Read More

The Gladiator

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a young Los Angeles man is killed by a drunken driver and his brother attempts to avenge his death by ridding the streets of dangerous drivers. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Head of the Class: Season 01

Actors: Howard Hesseman, William G. Schilling, Jeanetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: Season one of Head of the Class begins as substitute teacher Charles Moore (Howard Hesseman) takes over the high-achieving Individual Honors Program (IHP) at New York's Monroe High School (soon to be re-christened Millard Fillmore High). Though principal Dr. Samuels (William G. Schilling) expects Read More

One Terrific Guy

Synopsis: In this teen drama, a courageous high school girl accuses her well-respected coach of improper conduct. Despite severe ostracism from her peers and the faculty, the brave girl refuses to back down until justice is done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Growing Pains: Dirt Bike

Synopsis: Against his parents' orders, Mike (Kirk Cameron) goes for a ride on a dirt bike, only to suffer a painful fall. The trick now is to hide his injuries from Maggie (Joanna Kerns) and Jason (Alan Thicke), to say nothing of hiding his guilt and humiliation. Elsewhere, Ben ({$Jeremy Miller]) begins Read More

Crime of Innocence

Synopsis: In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More